Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies; Co-Director of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative; Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design
Research Interests
Ecological and socio-environmental dimensions of urbanization; cultural histories of cities from the early modern period...
HUCE Environmental Fellow: 2018-2020 PhD English, University of Sussex, United Kingdom Current Position: Researcher in Residence, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
Jemma Deer works at the intersection of literary studies, deconstruction, and the environmental humanities. She is interested in the ways in which current ecological crises such as climate change, extinction, and biodiversity loss are working to transform the ways we understand the world and our place within it.... Read more about Jemma Deer
Kernan Brothers Environmental Fellow: 2019-2021 PhD, English, Harvard University Current Position: Associate of the Department of English, Harvard University
Marissa Grunes is a literary scholar and science writer focused on nineteenth-century American literature and visual culture, environmental history, and Antarctica.... Read more about Marissa Elizabeth Grunes
Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2015-2017 PhD Natural Resources, Cornell University Current Position: Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Faculty Affiliate in History, Williams College
Laura Jane Martin is a historian and ecologist who studies the cultural and political dimensions of ecological management.... Read more about Laura J. Martin